>>102196385
Not a genwunner, but it does seem like a weird move.
Make an OVA that's explicitely for nostalgia's sake and then BAM new game mechanic buy our new versions. When there's already the regular anime for that. What's the point besides pissing off the nostalgiafags?

>>102196629
yes
the whole generation is nostalgia pandering
they knew mega evolutions were a big change to pokemon and nostalgiafags would hate it, so they made a special about the first gen characters to make genwunners accept mega evos

>Pokemon 2 was announced, all dat hype>New pokemon being revealed slowly, even more hype>Motherfucking skateboard (which ended up getting axed because time and bicycle already existed anyways)>Rumors about playing as "ash's brother" (Red's brother)>Games get released, every cool kid has it>100 motherfucking new Pokeman>Whole new region>"Do-do-do dododo, Pokemon Johto!" on the TV>Ash wrecking shit on new region abusing his already leveled pokemon from Kanto on Johto on the show>Meanwhile, games are direct sequel>Dem references to Kyoto and japanese myths throughout the game>2 new types to balance tourneyfaggan>Special stat split>Day and Night, time and week days>Pokegear, basically a modern-day smartphone in 1999>Different Pokemon depending on the time and day>Items organized in a self-exaplanatory way>Select button actually has a purpose now>One of the first games with wireless communication (Japanese Crystal)>First pokemon game with animation>Could choose between girl or boy>You could even store real life contacts in your game

>Only 4 episodes>meh voice directing>Greater number of significant events events occur between the episodes than within the episodes themselves>too videogame-y with the healthbars on the screens and bide being exactly two attacks>mega evolution that wasn't needed>couldn't even get the fucking SAVE BEEP right
If they wanted to be so stingy with making an OVA series, they should've chosen something of a smaller scale. Condensing the retelling of the entire Gen 1 saga in four episodes of snippets is not fucking okay. They can shit out 20 fucking seasons and hundreds if not thousands of Pokemon episodes so there is no excuse.

I'd be much more satisfied if it was absolute shit through and through or completely something else. But no, the parts of it that were good were fucking incredible, yet it's gimped to 4 episodes with all these flaws and missed opportunities and they'll probably never take another shot at it ever again. I am fucking furious.

>>102198332>>Greater number of significant events events occur between the episodes than within the episodes themselves
Im really annoyed that we didnt get any of Charmanders evolutions in the actual show

>>102198445
Well it goes too far with aspects such as healthbars existing in-universe. Having them around as part of the fourth wall would've been much more suitable than them existing on the gym screens.

>>102198457
There are tons of other places where showing off mega evolutions would be much more suitable. In the main anime. In a movie. In a different OVA focused on Gen VI. Shoehorning it in a Gen I throwback is far less suitable than the aforementioned choices.

It was way too similar to the video game>characters saying the exact same lines from the games>the "continue/save" shit at the start and end of every episode>health bars
pokemon is better when it doesn't follow the games too closely

>>102198536
I think the only times that the game elements were done right was in well....Special, didn't feel too forced or unnatural there, or maybe I'm missing something.>>102198664>Main anime>Movie
Well it already happened in the movie, and I heard that right now in the anime Charizard is actually with Ash again so that most likely means the anime is going to feature the Y form. But that that was the whole point, to appeal to older fans who remember the older games and put something from the new game in it so that it would make them interested and cause a "Oh, what's this? Better buy the game and find out" reaction. It's all clear and makes sense(sort of) even if people don't like that.

>>102199176>He doesn't care his very first Pokemon got lost in the chaos of time and dead batteries just because RSE is the worst generation and started the decline of the entire franchise

I dislike RSE because I never liked the trumpets since the beginning, there was no hype whatsoever prior its release (or its hype was shit compared to GSC's hype), the anime started to went full pants on head retarded (no Misty? no Gary? team reset?) and many mechanics from the older games worsened or were cut off completely.

Why does the text on this world look like garbled alien font? Wasn't it officially established that it was taking part in some sort of fictional japan? The text feels off and every time I see it makes me think we're in a medieval or alien setting.

>>102199438>Wasn't it officially established that it was taking part in some sort of fictional japan?
No. Some people believe it takes place in the real world because all regions are based on real countries/cities, but it's a completely different world

>>102199438
It does take place in fictional Japan (B/W is the US and X/Y is France). But I don't think that means anything in terms of language.
Plus in RSE Braille was the language of the ancients so whatever.

>>102198759>RSE ruined the compability in trading for the franchise
You mean set the groundwork for working backwards compatibility to this very day? You're a fool if you genuinely think Pokemon from Gen I/II would ever have been feasible to transfer to Gen III.

>>102199819
There are fan-made tools that made it possible to transfer old Pokemon to newer games you know. The thing is, Gamefreak had the budget and knowledge on their own programming to do this back in the day, and they didn't.

I'm still pissed you have to do retarded minigames to transfer Pokemon from Gen III to Gen IV, IV to V or V to VI but you can't transfer backwards, not to mention the minigames themselves are unnecessary and stupid.

>>102199659
Fedoras are associated with self-entitled teenagers or manchildren. In this case you are just avoiding discussion and throwing out names like a children would do.

>>102200085
Could work. First gen Fire Spin was broken and just stunlockaed the opponent for a bunch of turns, and then you could do it over and over again until you're out of PP. And I'm pretty sure Charizard is faster than Blastoise.

>>102200052
Oh okay, thank you for explaining, But you should realize you didn't really give a reason as to why you didn't like RSE, not to mention you proceed to jump on BW and XY without giving any reasons at all. The anime being stupid(btw how long did it take you to realize that?) has nothing to do with the games, same with hype, it means nothing, you can hype a bad game and a good game may receive very little hype. And what mechanics have worsened or were cut off? Because pretty much everything gor improved/new things were added. I don't care if I just took a bait.
Also, 1994

Red catching all 150 pokemon should have been a positive thing, but I think it was actually negative
He was always using different pokemon. The only pokemon he always kept with him was charizard, so it was the only pokemon the viewers cared about.

>>102200349
I already said why I dislike RSE here >>102199327 . Gen 3 games are the blandest in the whole franchise to me, including FR LG.

The internal clock on the games have got worse since GSC, stop kidding yourself. I don't quite remember if In DPPt pokemon encounters change according to the time of the day, but in RSE it obviously didn't and neither did in BW. I don't know about XY but I'm assuming it doesn't either because Gamefreak knows new fans will eat any piece of shit game they release under the label of Pokemon. They could even make a key ring into a Pokemon and people would still eat that shit up.

>>102200813
Oh yeah, also berry mechanics got fucked over. Now you are the only person in the planet who plants berries and that just makes it annoying as hell. In gen 2 you just had to pick your berries each days and in based HG SS you can plant and take care of them wherever you want because of the berry pouch of whatever its called. Gen 3 and 4 are a hassle and I think in the newer games you have to download them from the internet or some shit. Whoever thought that was a good idea deserves a good punch in the face.

>>102200372
Really reminds me of my old Blue playthrough. I basically soloed the game with the starter, with the other 'mons acting as extra lives to my horribly overleveled Blastoise (he finally goes down, switch to other mon, use revive, other mon dies, go back to Blastoise). It actually worked disturbingly well, breaking through typings with raw power (all those revives were really expensive, though).

>>102200627
Nah, Indy is cool. And that's precisely why fedoras are associated with bad things on the internet these days : all these dumb teens who thought wearing the same hat was all it took to be as cool, without actually having the style to make it look good.

>>102201425
It felt like it had some sort of continuity with the Kanto arc. The directors went full retard on cutting off the planned Celebi and Suicune arc and put in fillers instead just to jew off people with a bad movie though, I won't deny that.

On a related note, remember that episode when Ash returned home and his mom made a birthday party for him?

And as far as the anime goes, it still felt like Ash was progressing towards something. The Orange Islands were this wild frontier leading up to Gold and Silver. Ash hasn't been reset for the millionth time (seriously, he keeps abandoning everyone and forgetting basic type advantages. This guy was offered the title of Frontier Brain for fuck's sake).

Gen 6 isn't so bad though, as far as the game is concerned. Worldwide launch meant there was *some* mystery for awhile, and the customization means you're finally playing as *you* in the game, which is cool.

>>102202981>Traveling back to Kanto and fighting Red sounds like some ridiculous playground myth. But NOPE YOUR ENDGAME IS A WHOLE NEW GAME.
I loved how the wild pokemon actually got weaker and weaker the closer you got to Pallet Town. That was a nice touch.

>>102202981>And as far as the anime goes, it still felt like Ash was progressing towards something. The Orange Islands were this wild frontier leading up to Gold and Silver. Ash hasn't been reset for the millionth time (seriously, he keeps abandoning everyone and forgetting basic type advantages. This guy was offered the title of Frontier Brain for fuck's sake).

This. Series should have ditched Ash at the end of Johto and switched to a new set of protagonists. Like, have it end with him finally meeting Ho-oh (not that shitty 2000 movie) and cap it off there. Then have the new protagonists bump into Ash and have a two-parter or something.

The games need better post-game content, though. The badges and shit is really a formality; I liked wandering the Sevi Islands and going back to Kanto and shit, but D/P didn't have a whole lot, and X/Y barely had anything. Never bothered with Gen 5 but it doesn't seem like it has much either.